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My newest acquisition is a 1952 Chevy 6400 dump bed truck. It took me a while to get a deal put together for this truck,and technically I still owe for it,but the seller told me to go ahead and take it home,as he was concerned about it being vandalized where it was stored and he was out of town. I took a friend (Pat) with me to get the truck;the plan was to see whether it'd be easiest to fix and drive it in,tow it on my tow bar or tow it on a strap or chain,or try to find a big trailer,then come back to get it moved. I decided to first try towing it on a tow bar,so we hooked that up,aired up all the truck tires,connected it to my Bronco II (the BroncWorth) and quickly realized it wasn't going to be dancing to the same tune. I could pull it easily enough. I had Pat get behind the wheel to try to keep everything going the same direction,but the only time the BroncWorth went straight was in transit from sideways to the left over to sideways to the right. We finally made it the mile or so to the main road,where he told me he thought we should just hook a tow rope to it. No problem,except with no brakes,the E brake was the only game in town,and IT didn't work. I discovered the pin that held the handle and the lift rod together was gone,so Pat found a hitchpin clip that worked fine. We went another half mile or so and I stopped to make sure things were okay. Pat was having a rough time with steering with one hand and braking with the other,so we traded places. So on we go. Once in a while he'd get us going a little faster (Okay-quite a LOT faster) than I felt good with,so I'd just yard back on the E brake,smoke would boil off it and sure 'nuff,the BroncWorth would magically slow down. It was about 6 or 7 miles of dirt road into Elko,we went right through downtown Elko and out the old highway to the East another 8 miles (at 45 mph) to the turn off to White Rock,our destination,then another 3 miles to my storage area. All things considered,it went pretty easy. Once it was parked,I checked it out a little closer and found the engine froze up,and I found a pretty nice used clutch disc under the seat. (Could THIS be why the clutch wouldn't disengage??) With any luck,the link below will give you a dozen pics of the truck. I'll post on my '54 GMC as soon as I can show pics of it too.
Speed

1952 Chevy 6400

Speed, just reading your story made my ticker kick up a beat or two. What and adventure and story for the kids or grandkids and the old guys at the corner store!
Be sure to put this story, and a picture, in the Gallery.

.....and yet another saved from the tin monster.

I'll see if I can prevail upon Peggy to copy the text and picture link over there for me,since I seem to have a problem moving things around on this site. (Guess I'm no good at moving anything smaller than 8,000 pounds.)
Speed